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Guest Post by Samuel Weiss and Amy Fettig Samuel Weiss is Ford Foundation Fellow at the ACLU’s Center for Justice. Amy Fettig is Senior Staff Counsel at the ACLU’s National Prison Project. In March, Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy was testifying before the House Appropriations Subcommittee when he received a question on prison overcrowding. He responded […]

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Supreme Court Justice Kennedy Invites Constitutional Challenge of Solitary Confinement

Will Lawsuits and Exposés Lead to Reform of Florida’s Brutal Prisons?

Federal Judge Orders Angola 3’s Albert Woodfox Released After 43 Years in Solitary

With Loved Ones in Prison, Women Lead the Fight Against Solitary Confinement in New York

Legislation Limiting Solitary Confinement in New York Gains Momentum

At Ohio’s Supermax Prison, a Hunger Strike Ends But Extreme Isolation Remains

Voices from Solitary: The Safari from Pelikkkan Bay

Officials, Advocates Call for Restrictions on Solitary Confinement in Wisconsin

Voices from Solitary: My Tranz Brothers and Sisters Are There, Boxed

Solitary Not Yet Over at Rikers, But Advocates Keep Fighting

Civil and Human Rights Groups to Eric Holder: No New Federal Supermax Prison at Thomson

For Solitary Confinement in U.S. Prisons, A Year of Incremental Reform

Controversy Erupts at Public Meeting on New Rikers Island Isolation Units

UN Committee on Torture Says U.S. Must Reform Its Use of Solitary Confinement

Working from the Inside Out

On Trial for Protesting Conditions in Solitary Confinement: The Case of the Dallas 6

On Rikers Island, an End to the Solitary Confinement of Children

New York City Officials and Advocates Push for Change to the “Culture of Brutality” on Rikers Island

“We Are Not the Worst of the Worst”: One Year Later, What’s Changed for Pelican Bay’s Hunger Strikers?

Voices from Solitary: Playing “The Con Game” at Pelican Bay

The Odyssey to Pelican Bay: Families Journey to California’s Notorious Supermax Prison

Seven Days in Solitary [5/11/14]

Immigrant Hunger Strikers Placed in Solitary Confinement at Federal Detention Center

Doing “Bing Time”: Memories of a Mental Health Worker in Rikers Island’s Solitary Confinement Unit

Lawsuit Secures New Limits on Solitary Confinement in New York’s Prisons

At Hearing on Solitary Confinement in California Prisons, Advocates Challenge “Reforms”

Seven Months After Historic Prison Hunger Strike, Opponents of Solitary in California Gauge the Pace of Change

Far from Guantánamo, Torture Takes Root in American Soil

Voices from Solitary: Hunger Strike in Menard Prison